Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978. He wrote and published only in Yiddish, and was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement. He also won two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Fiction for his 1974 collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories and one in Children's Literature for his 1970 memoir A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw.